Give your money and lose your friend : the roles of social exclusion and money anthropomorphism in charitable giving by Kho, Mandon Jin Cheng

“…Social exclusion can trigger compensatory behaviors when social needs are threatened. Compensatory behaviors may include prosocial behaviors, such as charitable giving, as a way to reconnect socially with other people. …”
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The effects of Ad disliking on purchase intention. by Ong, Rachel Cuiting., Chia, Gin Pei Ling., Tan, Shi Hui.

“…Ad disliking was hypothesized to lead to lower purchase intentions than when ads are liked. In addition, it was also hypothesized to have greater effects on purchase intentions when consumers have low need for cognition, when they are under low-involvement conditions and when they are not brand-loyal.…”
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Nation in action : making Chinese in the rural borderland between China and North Korea by Chen, Shiwei

“…Data collection is based on multi-sited fieldwork over the span of three years, utilizing participant observation and in-depth interviews. …”
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Remote digital cognitive assessment reveals cognitive deficits related to hippocampal atrophy in autoimmune limbic encephalitis: a cross-sectional validation study by Shibata, K, Attaallah, B, Tai, X-Y, Trender, W, Hellyer, PJ, Hampshire, A, Irani, SR, Manohar, SG, Husain, M

“…No impairments in digit & spatial span, target detection (attention) and emotion discrimination were observed. …”

Temporal variability in host availability alters the outcome of competition between two parasitoid species by Wang, H, Liu, T, Sun, S, Lewis, OT, Xi, X

“…</li> <li>To investigate this, we allowed two parasitoid species,&nbsp;<em>Trichopria drosophilae</em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Pachycrepoideus vindemiae</em>, to exploit&nbsp;<em>Drosophila</em>&nbsp;host pupae under different temporal variability treatments, either on their own or simultaneously.</li> <li>When tested individually (in the absence of interspecific competition), both parasitoid species had lower fitness when hosts were exposed for a short duration at high density than when exposed for a long duration at low density. …”

A discourse analysis looking at the way counselling psychologists discuss and address issues of race with individuals from black Asian and minority ethnicities by Madre de Deus de Sousa, Filipe Alexandre

“…Background: Current literature reports the prejudiced experiences Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) clients and supervisees have when talking about culture, racial discrimination and race when engaging with professionals in therapeutic dyads. …”
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Nanyang Technological University events management web application by Ang, Kok Jian

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Rapid construction of green nanopesticide delivery systems using sophorolipids as surfactants by flash nanoprecipitation by Ma, Enguang, Chen, Kai, Sun, Liang, Fu, Zhinan, Guo, Jiangtao, Liu, Jichang, Zhao, Jigang, Liu, Zhiyong, Lei, Zhigang, Li, Li, Hu, Xiao, Guo, Xuhong

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Evaluating Adaptive Layer Freezing through Hyperparameter Optimization for Enhanced Fine-Tuning Performance of Language Models by Figueroa, Reinaldo

“…Generalization is crucial when deploying models that perform a sensitive tasks in a real world environment, as it dictates how well it performs on unseen data. …”
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XYZ translation by Au, Chong Weng

“…I remembered the time where I first watched an animated cartoon when I was a kid, I was so fascinated by the moving pictures and actions even when I do not understand the story. …”
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Mental contrasting changes the meaning of reality by Kappes, A, Wendt, M, Reinelt, T, Oettingen, G

“…Mental contrasting of a desired future with the present reality strengthens goal pursuit when expectations of success are high, and weakens goal pursuit when expectations of success are low. …”

The roles of source expertise and message completeness in the evaluation of an online health discussion board. by Thanomwong Poorisat.

“…However, when the message was less complete, their perceptions of credibility were influenced more by existing knowledge. …”
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Wear behaviour of NiTi shape memory alloys by Yan, Lina

“…Further decrease was noticed when the temperature approached the Af. When tested above the Af, the coefficient of friction decreased more significantly under higher loads. …”
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Changes in the mechanical properties of human hair under various conditions by Boo, Khee Meng.

“…This project sought to investigate the tensile properties of human hair when subjected to specific conditions which is hair coloring and exposure to chlorine. …”
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THE MAYFLY / by Hazel, James, author 656313

“…A reckoning seventy years in the making . . . When lawyer Charlie Priest is attacked in his own home by a man searching for information he claims Priest has, he is drawn into a web of corruption that has its roots in the last desperate days of World War Two. …”

Educated : a memoir / by Westover, Tara 1986- 656335, author

“…When another brother got himself into college, Tara decided to try a new kind of life. …”

Challenging the ugliness of beauty : beautification as an instrument of female agency by Chong, Eunice Chin Hui

“…I will proceed to illustrate two ways in which beautification can take the form of an informed personal choice. Firstly, when beautification is practiced to reclaim the power of feminine beauty, and secondly, when beautification is practiced for pleasure. …”
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Loss analysis of a mix-flow turbine with nozzled twin-entry volute at different admissions by Xue, Yingxian, Yang, Mingyang, Martinez-Botas, Ricardo F., Romagnoli, Alessandro, Deng, Kangyao

“…Opposite phenomenon happens when the majority is fed from lower part (near hub). …”
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Pattern and process in the bill morphology of the Great Tit Parus major by Gosler, A

“…This was especially clear in winter, so that heritability estimates for bill characters tended to be significantly higher when the offspring were measured in summer than when measured in winter. …”

Cold-formed light gauge steel for rapid deployable shelters by Wu, Hongjun.

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